Kind of. Ha.
I'll still be in the North Buffalo area with Sister Thomas, but we're getting kicked out of our apartment! Come on! We're getting a new Elder who had to wait for his visa to come through from Mexico and so now he and his trainer are taking our apartment in Kenmore and we're moving in with...the Amherst Sisters!! Sister Brown (from Utah) and Sister Lee (from Hong Kong). It's gonna be a party erryday! After we're done moving...again :)
So first- sorry that last week I left the email on a weird note! Looking back that was a strange place to stop but I found out I only had 20 minutes cause other people needed to use the computer and we had a ton of stuff to do last week. It was really one of the best weekends I've had since being on my mission though! A group of us in the Buffalo area all rode down to Palmyra for an activity at the Book of Mormon Publication site. We gave tours and everything- there were hundreds of people who came through! It was really fun and it was also good to get to know the other missionaries serving around me. Just in a few short days we became like family! We got to stay at the mission home for two nights, too so it was really great to be able to spend some time with the Christiansons. Love them!
Can I just say if it was up to me I would stay in this area with Sister Thomas the rest of my mission? I really do love it here. I wish we could focus more downtown than having to divide our attention all over the place, but every single day we've been able to talk to such amazing people who are going through incredible things. One of our most recent and most memorable I'll mention really quickly has to do with General Conference that happened this past weekend! For any who are unaware of what General Conference is, watch this rill quick:
http://youtu.be/KL_rO6Z3n4c
Ok now that everyone is caught up, in between the AM and PM sessions on Saturday, Sister Thomas and I and also Elders Harris and Pascual (serving in our ward as well) decided to pray and then walk around downtown to find anyone who would want to come back with us and watch the afternoon session with us at the chapel. The very first person we really talked to was named Heshem from Egypt. Heshem was so sweet! His English was pretty good, but his native tongue is Arabic. As we talked to Heshem he opened up about how many questions he has about life and life after this one. His father had passed away a couple years ago, he found himself in a strange place, and everyone seemed to have contradicting and confusing ideas. It filled my heart to be able to honestly tell him that we could help him find answers. Not even just our opinions, but that we could teach him to pray and ask for himself- give him the tools of the Book of Mormon and the Bible to search and find. He kept apologizing for having so many questions. Apologizing! The most common scripture in all of the standard works is a variation of "ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you." It's such a joy to continue to learn and receive that peace. I'm so grateful I get the opportunity to teach anyone who is trying to find answers, and I'm grateful that I've found so many already. I'm grateful that we have the tools to continue to find more answers, because life is so full of questions.
Random:
-This week we'll start volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House! http://www.rmhcwny.org/new-
-It got cold again this past week! Lame. But the quick stint of summer brought the holes in my wardrobe to my attention so today we're going to snoop around looking for a few short sleeve shirts. So with that said anyone around my size looking to donate short sleeved shirts or something of the like should consider sending items to me :) No need to buy anything though I'm quite happy with hand me downs!
-Seester Thomas and I have been running around 3 miles in the morning! It feels good to be able to run again.
-Happy birthday to Calvin this past week! He's not a teenager anymore! Mom can't say, "Hello teenage boy!" anymore! Which means...LOOK OUT, RC! I hope it went well, brosef :)
-I'm sending pictures this week since I was robbed of tiempo last week. Hope you like them!
-Trying Buffalo wings is on our bucket list for the transfer, and we're trying red hots today! I'll let you know how that goes.
-Happy Easter, everyone! If I've forgotten anything I'll...write it next week :)
Love,
Hermana Ray
Our apartment, me with Sister Potts and me with Sister Haushauer, Sister Thomas in our crazy messy apartment trying to sort through area books and get our feet under us!
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| This was taken a few weeks ago before I left for Buffalo and I miss them. |
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